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Title: Passing Away, Saith The World
Forum: Christina Georgina Rossetti Forum
Author: More poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Passing Away, Saith The World

     Passing away, saith the World, passing away:
     Chances, beauty and youth, sapp'd day by day:
     Thy life never continueth in one stay.
     Is the eye waxen dim, is the dark hair changing to grey
     That hath won neither laurel nor bay?
     I shall clothe myself in Spring and bud in May:
     Thou, root-stricken, shalt not rebuild thy decay
     On my bosom for aye.
     Then I answer'd: Yea.

   Passing away, saith my Soul, passing away:
   With its burden of fear and hope, of labour and play,
   Hearken what the past doth witness and say:
   Rust in thy gold, a moth is in thine array,
   A canker is in thy bud, thy leaf must decay.
   At midnight, at cockcrow, at morning, one certain day
   Lo, the Bridegroom shall come and shall not delay:
   Watch thou and pray.
   Then I answer'd: Yea.

   Passing away, saith my God, passing away:
   Winter passeth after the long delay:
   New grapes on the vine, new figs on the tender spray,
   Turtle calleth turtle in Heaven's May.
   Though I tarry, wait for Me, trust Me, watch and pray.
   Arise, come away, night is past and lo it is day,
   My love, My sister, My spouse, thou shalt hear Me say.
   Then I answer'd: Yea.

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